<p>A novelist, screenwriter and ghostwriter, Canfield has lived in New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Miami Beach, Auckland, New Zealand, and his own personal Pennsylvania trifecta, Pittsburgh, Wilkes-Barre and his hometown of Bethlehem. He now resides in Long Beach, California with his favorite blondes, writer-editor wife Lisa and dog Betsy, but he will undoubtedly move again, because that’s just what he does.</p>
<p>Canfield’s books include <em>Dark Sky, Blue Fire, Red Earth</em> and <em>White Rain</em> (the first four books in his Max Bowman series); <em>What's Driving You???: How I Overcame Abuse and Learned to Lead in the NBA </em>(co-authored with Keyon Dooling and Lisa Canfield); <em>Pill Mill: My Years of Money, Madness, Sex and Drugs </em>(co-authored with Christian Valdes and Lisa Canfield); and <em>226: How I Became the First Blind Person to Kayak the Grand Canyon </em>(co-authored with Lonnie Bedwell.  <em>Blue Fire </em>was a 2016 Silver Honoree in the Benjamin Franklin Digital Awards as well as a semi-finalist in the Book Life Prize in Fiction competition. <em>Red Earth </em>was a 2017 Gold Honoree in the Benjamin Franklin Digital Awards. He has also co-written two Hallmark movies, <em>Eat, Play, Love </em>and <em>Yes, I Do</em> with Lisa Canfield.</p>
<p>For more about Joel and his lovely wife, visit www.gethipcreative.com.</p>
